Thursday, September 15, 2016

One People, One God, One Flag.

In
Philadelphia, on Wednesday, September 7, 2016, Republican Presidential
Candidate Donald J. Trump defined his candidacy in a phrase which deserves to
be enshrined in the history of the United States of America.

He urged his
supporters to join with their friends and neighbors in uniting our nation as
“one people, under one God, saluting one flag.”

That
phrase is a mantra putting flesh on the bones of our motto ‘e pluribus unum.’
Trump does not denigrate our diversity. We are white, black, European, Asian,
African, Hindu, Buddist, Muslim. That’s the pluribus. Trump doesn't deny it. He simply asks us to maximize, to emphasize, to focus on the unum.

We are
one people because we are all Americans. We speak English. We share a history,
a political system, a legal system, an economic system.

And we
share one God.

I am
surprised that the Clintonites, the mainstream media, the minions of political
correctness have not jumped all over Trump’s ‘one God’ statement.

Obama
famously declared, while speaking on foreign soil, that America is no longer a
Christian nation.

Trump
clearly puts himself in opposition to Obama’s disavowal. If we are a nation “under
one God” what God is it? Whose God is it? Is our God the Great Spirit worshiped
by native Americans? Is it the God known as Allah to Nidal Husan and the 9-11
murderers? Is it the impersonal Budda that exists only conceptually in the
minds of Tibetan monks?

No
indeed. The God enshrined on our currency, the God called upon to witness the
truth of testimony in our courts, the God celebrated by Kate Smith when she
sang “God Bless America.” is none other than the God of Abraham, the God of
Moses, the God of Jesus Christ, the God of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
and Martin Luther King, Jr.

We are one nation under one God because we are
a Christian nation. We celebrate Christmas and Easter. We count our days and
our years from the birth of Christ. We live by a system of common law founded
by Christian judges in England before we became a nation.

When the
Founders of our nation wrote in the Northwest Ordinance that “religion,
morality and knowledge are necessary for good government and the happiness of
mankind” they were talking about the Bible; the summary of Judeo-Christian
tradition and belief.

They were
talking about the book that enshrines a philosophy of human existence on planet
earth as a species of animal life endowed with the spiritual dimensions of
intellect and free will that distinguish us from every other form of life.

All
through human history there have been people who have risen up to remind us of
our destiny as the keepers of the planet; prophets who have called on us to
repent; leaders who have urged us to seize the moral highground; thinkers who have opened our eyes to
reality and heroes who have inspired our hearts to embrace the true dimensions
of our humanity.

Not all
of those people were smart or beautiful, or popular or welcomed. Some were tarred and feathered, some were tortured and martyred, many were ridiculed and scorned. Still others were simply ignored.

Whether
Donald J. Trump belongs in that company, I cannot say. His words may very well
have been the work product of some anonymous speechwriter who will never be
identified.

But the
fact is that Donald J. Trump is the one who said those words. He may be ill
equipped to explain them, to expand upon their message, to defend their
importance to all Americans and to our progeny.

I can
only hope that he will try. I can only hope that, flawed as he may be by
however he has lived and whatever he may have said or done in the past, he will
endorse the full meaning of America as one people, believing in one God and
saluting one flag.

If he
brings that kind of a profile to the upcoming Presidential debates, he will not
only win the election; he will have started our nation on a course that will
restore the American dream of liberty under law, and literally make America
Great Again.

Having never been a Christian, despite being born in the United States, I find the statement that we are under "one God" to be patently ridiculous. You cannot force ANYONE to believe in someone else's fiction.

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